And, in case you missed it on our Facebook yesterday, Science Diet donated $2,000! Wow! Huge, tremendous, words-are-not-enough thank you to them for doing this! It will make a big difference in our drive and for our shelters!

Raffle tickets can still be purchased (for $1,775 of awesome, amazing products) and cash donations can still be made! Every penny goes to our shelters. Let's make this holiday the happiest one ever for all the deserving doggies and kitties there! Please donate if you can!

So, a big box arrives at my house and I have no idea what it is. It has "Fragile" written on it, so I'm careful. It is all kinds of taped up with super-heavy-duty tape that doesn't want to cut or rip, so I work at even just opening the box for at least three minutes.

Once I get in the box, I see that it is full of packing peanuts. Pimp is pleased. He likes to bat them around. I try to figure out how to get them out of there to see what is underneath without making a huge mess.

Once I manage that, I notice that there is a ton of bubble wrap around whatever is in there. (Bubble wrap! Fun!) Yeah, no. This thing has bubble wrap wrapped around bubble wrap with huge clear packing tape securing each layer. I spend no less than 10 minutes trying to unwrap and cut the bubble wrap.

THEN I get in there and I see that it's a Cat Chow bag. There is a nice card on top of it from Cat Chow saying how nice it was to meet me earlier this year when I went up to visit and all. Very sweet!

To be honest, I don't even notice the bag. I am just slightly annoyed that I have to open it to see whatever is inside (at this point, I'm thinking they cleverly wrapped some kind of gift in a Cat Chow bag, because it's heavy, but clearly not with cat food).

So I start trying to open the bag, but it is practically super-glued shut. No cat food bag has ever been this hard to open! I contemplate just ripping it or taking scissors to it, but finally get it open (it's now been, I kid you not, 15 minutes).

And what is inside? More packing peanuts... and a piece of wood.

A piece of wood?! I have a sense of humor, but I was a little annoyed. All of this for a silly joke? Argh!

So I call my friend Tamar from I Have Cat and ask her if Cat Chow sent her something. (At this point I'm thinking they forgot to enclose whatever they meant to in the bag.) She says yes. I asked what they sent her...

And she says a Cat Chow bag with her picture. So I look at my bag, finally, and notice.

Dec 17, 2012

Cashmere and Puffy are some of the most talented (and in shape!) cats I've ever seen. These two fabulous felines do all kinds of crazy cat agility stunts!

They jump over super-tall walls and over poles that keep getting higher and higher. They run through tunnels and hop, hop, hop over stuff as fast as I've ever seen a kitty move -- and all without knocking anything over!

I'm just amazed by cat agility. I get excited when one of my cats simply comes when I call them or gets off the table if I say so... Heh.

NOTE FROM CUTE: Thursday is the absolute last day to donate to Santa Paws Drive! We are not taking any more toy or treats donations, but you can still donate cash or purchase raffle tickets for some amazing items! We've done so great so far, let's finish off strong and send these shelters as fabulous of a holiday as possible!

Dec 16, 2012

You'd think that in such a small space like a bucket, a cat could finally catch his tail... but you'd be wrong.

Those darn tails are impossible to catch!

NOTE FROM CUTE: Have you checked out the Santa Paws Drive raffle yet? We've stopped collecting toys and treats (so Santa can ship them off in time!), but you can still enter the raffle -- tickets are only one dollar and all proceeds go directly to the shelters!

You can win a custom pet portrait by BZTAT, a ModernCat Cat Trapeze, a year of Feline or Canine Greenies, a year "wardrobe" of collars from Sweet Pickles Designs (one for every month!), a Drinkwell 360 Fountain from PetSafe, a huge PetFusion Scratcher Lounge prize pack and more! Check out the raffle items!

The last day for cash donations and raffle tickets is Thursday, December 20. Thank you all for all the support! This is shaping up to be the best Christmas ever for our shelters!